Science

Pupils in all years follow a programme of study based on the National Curriculum for England (2014) and are taught to communicate and interpret information in a variety of forms. Observational skills and scientific techniques are developed so that pupils are able to plan, perform and evaluate their own investigations.

Provision in the curriculum will enable pupils to:-

Biology

Plants

Look at the function of parts of flowering plants, requirements of growth, water transportation in plants, life cycles and seed dispersal

Evolution and inheritance

Look at resemblance in offspring

Look at changes in animals over time

Look at adaptation to environments

Look at differences in offspring

Look at adaptation and evolution

Look at changes to the human skeleton over time

Animals and humans

Look at nutrition, transportation of water and nutrients in the body and the muscle and skeleton systems of humans and animals

Look at the digestive system in humans

Look at teeth

Look at the human circulatory

All living things

Identify and name plants and animals

Look at classification keys

Look at the life cycle of animals and plants

Look at classifications of plants, animals and micro organisms

Look at reproduction in plants and animals and human growth and changes

Look at the effect of diet, exercise and drugs

Chemistry

Rocks and fossils

Compare and group rocks and describe the formation of fossils

States of matter

Look at solids, liquids and gases, changes of state, evaporation, condensation and the water cycle

Materials

Examine the properties of materials using various tests

Look at solubility and recovering dissolved substances

Separate mixtures

Examine changes to materials that create new materials that are usually not reversible

Physics

Light

Look at sources, seeing, reflections and shadows

Explain how light appears to travel in straight lines and how this affects seeing and shadows